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-Land of the Free
"Yes, we will build a wall"
Rep. McCaul lays down his marker.
Republican Michael McCaul, represents Texas' 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 12:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The most important thing is to have someone who has the will to do something about the immigration problem which was created in Washington, DC.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 18:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Incoming SecDef: 10 Most Bad Ass Quotes from General James
[VictoryGirlsBlog] One last point: if I were you, Daesh, I’d just lay down my arms right now, and slither off into the blowing sands. Cuz Mad Dog Mattis is coming after you, and he’ll be bringing Hell with him.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Its safer to use a sharp knife than a dull one.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2016 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Additional Mattis quote from a reliable source, paraphrased a bit I suspect:

'Perfection can be the enemy of successful mission accomplishment. Even Jesus of Nazareth had one guy go bad on him.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm trying not to get too excited about Mattis being appointed until he actually takes office, but: Damn!!!

One question is whether the mullahs are going to be more frightened than the Courtney Massengales in the Pentagon.

Posted by: Matt || 12/03/2016 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  How is he at handling armies of battling bureaucrats?
Posted by: james || 12/03/2016 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Mattis seems like a good fit. Certainly worth a try. Cabinet could use his kind of input. To get where he is/was, he had to have gone through "charm school" and he must have had a fair amount of administrative experience as well as war-fighting experience.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 18:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Wonder how quickly the REMF's see careers go fully Tango Uniform before a new sense of urgency and focus emerges.
I'm guessing a lot of short time perfumed princes of the Obumble era call ENDEX in February 2017.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/03/2016 20:28 Comments || Top||


Anti-Trump Forces are Wrong, Electors Have Absolutely No Legal Right To Vote Their ‘Conscience’
[LAWNEWZ] Anti-Trump forces are apparently gearing up for an all out legal war against the Electoral College. They plan to file legal action in all 29 states which have laws that prohibit electors from "voting their conscience." However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
those encouraging electors to abandon the will of the people are wrong, and are violating the basic principles of democracy.

In the seminal decision of Ray v. Blair, the Supreme Court made clear electors act at the privilege of the state that empowers them, and do NOT enjoy any special right to vote as they please.

Article II, section 1 of the Constitution gives states the rights to select their electors as they please, including a right to require party and candidate loyalty, and the concomitant authority to strip an elector of participation in the electoral college for failure to honor that pledge of loyalty to the party nominee. In so doing, the Supreme Court reversed the Alabama state supreme court, and rejected the idea that an elector had any Constitutionally protected right to vote in the electoral college as he or she chose.

Electors only "act by authority of the state." Ray v. Blair, 343 U.S. at 224 (1952). The Constitution itself gives such power to the states without restriction or restraint. "Neither the language of Art. II, § 1, nor that of the Twelfth Amendment forbids a party to require from candidates in its primary a pledge of political conformity with the aims of the party." The "suggestion" of some "assumed" elector choice to ignore the state’s limitations on his office was "impossible to accept" as some intention of the founders. As the court noted: "history teaches" just the opposite, as electors "were expected to support the party nominees.". Indeed, the Supreme Court labeled such faithless electors a "fraudulent invasion" for a reason.

Other legal scholars have recognized the elector as a ministerial office, not a discretionary one, whose authority is constricted to what the state compels of him. The famed scholar Joseph Story himself, as cited by the Supreme Court, referred to the electors as historically treated as "agents" of the state, not independent actors, and faithless electors as "dangerous." (Story wished it were otherwise, but did not let his wishes blind him to the law as it was). Effectively, a state could choose to empower electors, or strip them of any discretionary power, as they saw fit.

Either way, that is a right of the state, not the elector. Supreme Court precedent, legal history, and basic principles of both democracy and agency dictate as much. Those encouraging electors to act outside their authority, nullify their own vote, make perjurers of themselves (for those who signed under oath their pledge of support to their party nominee), and violate the basic precepts of democracy serve neither the law nor democracy. Those electors who even think of such an unlawful coup risk far more.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
A roll of the dice
[DAWN] WHEN a child says he is bored in class and refuses to go to school, few parents would allow him to stay at home.

But what happens when Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
won’t attend parliamentary sessions because he believes that the "National Assembly is the most boring place on earth", and "The house is meaningless"? These were the views he expressed in an interview in last month’s Herald magazine.

When asked about his poor attendance record as documented by the Pakistain Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency, his reply was equally superficial: "Performing in the National Assembly is like winning a poker game on the Titanic. The ship is going down, but you are winning your cards."

The PTI leader has often expressed his admiration for British parliamentary democracy. But perhaps he is unaware that just as in our assembly, sessions in the House of Commons are often dull, and attendance can be sparse.

But if an MP were to say openly that he was bored by the proceedings, he would be attacked in the media -- as well as in his constituency -- and asked to resign if he couldn’t do his job. MPs in Britannia, in addition to attending parliamentary sessions, are required to meet voters in their constituencies who have problems relating to government departments.

If a student doesn’t go to school or college, he is rusticated unless he has a very good reason for his absence. And if an employee doesn’t go to work, he is sacked. Our assemblies must be the only institutions that go on paying members even if they don’t turn up for months.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Promoting anti-science via textbooks
[DAWN] A BIOLOGY textbook is normally expected to teach biology as science, meaning a scientifically based study of the structure, growth and origin of living things. But what if such a book instead says science must follow ideology and loudly denounces the core principles of biology, condemning these as wrong and irrational?

Published in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
last year, a biology textbook declares that "The theory of evolution, as proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, is one of the most unbelievable and irrational claims in history". Ridiculing the notion that complex life evolved from simpler forms, it claims this violates common sense and is just as "baseless" as assuming that when two rickshaws collide "a motor car was evolved".
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Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  And I expect they teach IPCC approved climate science as well.
Posted by: phil_b || 12/03/2016 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Because science and math is too hard, liberals can only use "science" as a buzzword. Science requires honesty and integrity which are non-existent in the lib-prog world view.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/03/2016 10:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
2nd Amendment Training Video
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/03/2016 10:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did he fire a warning shot in the dark?

-SJW
Posted by: Bobby || 12/03/2016 13:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I think an important part of the story is what kind of firearm and caliber did home-owner use? They never report this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 18:42 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 I don't think it was a warning shot - I think he missed.

#2 I believe he used a .12ga (I can hear him racking the action). Unkn type of rounds.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/03/2016 23:51 Comments || Top||


Comey's FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums
h/t Instapundit
It’s time for the FBI to conduct a detailed investigation into the violence and political thuggery that continue to mar the presidential election’s aftermath. A thorough probe of the protests--to include possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts--will give the Bureau’s integrity-challenged director, James Comey, a chance to sandblast his sullied badge.

Director Comey must also include "elector intimidation" on his post-election investigation list. Reports that members of the Electoral College are being harassed and threatened by angry, vicious (and likely Democratic Party) malcontents require Comey’s quick and systematic attention.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2016 03:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes but there are many things he should investigate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 18:43 Comments || Top||


Texas Gov: Sanctuary Campuses Will Lose State Funding
[Daily Caller] Texas Gov. Greg Abbot says the state will cut off funding to any public school that declares itself a "sanctuary campus" for illegal immigrants.

Abbot made the announcement Thursday via Twitter, in response to a petition effort in the state by students seeking to have their universities protect illegal immigrants. Abbott made it clear such a move wouldn’t fly in Texas.

Following Donald Trump’s election victory, thousands of students around the country held classroom walkouts in which they called on administrators to declare their campuses havens for illegal immigrants. Several public colleges have already answered the call, including the University of California and California State University.

Generally, these campuses have promised that their police forces won’t cooperate with any federal efforts to enforce immigration law, and that student records won’t be turned over to the government without a specific court order. Some schools have also pledged to ban immigration enforcement officials from campus unless they possess a warrant.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2016 02:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Generally, these campuses have promised that their police forces won’t cooperate with any federal efforts to enforce immigration law,

Remove the Medieval practice of sovergnity of campuses. Turn law enforcement over to the local or state jurisdiction and take the administration out of the business. Also removes the tendency for some to suppress the actions of faculty and athletes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Anything that can be done to do away with the concept of sanctuary cities and campuses is a good thing. The concept makes little sense.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2016 18:39 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2016-12-03
  IS uses female suicide bombers in Sirte
Fri 2016-12-02
  Aussie, French warships intercept arms for Houthis
Thu 2016-12-01
  'IS-linked' Ohio university attacker lived in Pakistan for 7 years: NYT
Wed 2016-11-30
  ISIS claims responsibility for Ohio State attack
Tue 2016-11-29
  Iranian small boats train weapons on US Navy Helicopters
Mon 2016-11-28
  Ohio State Stabbing: Somali Refugee (stabber) Killed
Sun 2016-11-27
  Iraq's parliament passes law legalising Shia militias
Sat 2016-11-26
  Fidel Castro dies aged 90
Fri 2016-11-25
  Suicide truck bomb kills about 100 in Iraq, mostly Iranian pilgrims
Thu 2016-11-24
  Wayne State University police officer dies after being shot in head
Wed 2016-11-23
  ISIS ‘resisting till their last breath’ in Sirte, Libya
Tue 2016-11-22
  ISIS claims responsibility behind Kabul mosque bombing that left 32 dead
Mon 2016-11-21
  Turkey’s Erdogan warns NATO on sheltering ‘terrorist’ plotters
Sun 2016-11-20
  Three Pakistani Men Apprehended in U.S. at Arizona Border
Sat 2016-11-19
  Taliban shadow governor among 11 killed in North of Afghanistan

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